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Superior Court in session

April 1786 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The court convened with justices Ashe and Spencer present.

Kind of business
Superior Court in session
Court
Superior Court, April 1786
Justices
Ashe; Spencer

Reading note: Recorded at the April 1786 session of the Hillsborough District Superior Court, Judges Samuel Ashe and Samuel Spencer, which Redden’s abstracts print among the county court minutes.

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

  • Folio and page 27-286½
  • Published abstract: Alma Cheek Redden, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Inferior Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of Orange County, N.C., 1777–1788, page 24 (Orange County Public Library, NC 929.375 HAU)
  • Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30002, “County Court Minutes, 1777–1795” (State Archives film).
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